Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 103: Halloweeeeeeeeen

Episode Date: October 30, 2023

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Welcome this is John Owen Benn here back for the Burner Phone 31st of October won't lie got no messages today Ben Boyce on the Burner Phone. Nothing we need to clear today which is a good feeling when you get to clear messages normally on your phone you're like no messages. However for the the crux of this podcast, relying on voicemails. Would you like me to leave a secret one right now? Or is that just a waste of everyone's time? Is there anything on social media? Maybe we should have a quick look and see if

anyone's asked us anything on social media. Oh, okay, yeah. Because I don't often, I'm not very good at the Jono and Ben DMs. Sliding into some DMs. I can't figure it out when someone's like, oh, you've been sliding into the DMs, whether that comes with positive or negative connotations.

Yeah, I think it can be negative. There's an offer here from Space Studios for us. What do they do? If you ever want to hit up a dance class for a TikTok or a social media skit, we will do this for you. Our studio is the home of dancers. Just returned from the world of dance in Los Angeles.

Third place hip-hop team in the world. TikTok dancing. Jeez, I love watching it when it's all synced up. I love people syncing up and dancing. People are very good, aren't they? Yeah. Yeah. But I feel like that could be the new TikTok Dancing with the Stars.

You know, just little... It's funny because my daughter, she's right in that realm now. And some of the songs come with some saucy undertones. They do, yes. And she's listening to them in the car and there's all sorts of words. Yeah, sometimes it's quite bad language on some stuff. I'm like, ooh, ooh. Yeah, I go, ooh.

And then she goes, what? But then I'm like, I don't want to put myself in a position where i'm having to explain what that is yeah so i just like let's just turn that down for a second but then she's trying to figure out why it needs to be turned down because they're so innocent obviously yeah and i'm like well they're not talking about a cat darling yeah and sometimes when you know there is dances made to it you're like i don't know if they really know what they you know what's going on no i don't almost need that and i feel like an old man here but go this is the age appropriate the you know version yeah because you're like they're like what this is it yeah that's that's what it is why my daughter actually um i was quite impressed actually she

was like i'm watching i was she's like i found myself watching too much tick tock so i deleted the app from my phone i was like good on you she goes yeah i'm watching too much TikTok, so I deleted the app from my phone. I was like, oh, good on you. She goes, yeah, I'm watching too much of Instagram Reels now. It was the same thing. Yeah, she's like, it's just like TikTok, but like a week later. So now I better delete Instagram, bring TikTok back. I'm like, well, at least you're trying, which is good. Because my son put like a, I think he regrets it deeply, a timer on his phone.

You can have that, and then once your limit's up, then it requests the adult for more phone time. Gotcha. And he's put it on for some flash of sensibility or something. I think for studying because he's having to study at the moment. But now he's sort of 45 minutes, can I have some more screen time? Can I have some more screen time? It's a good one to wield the power over though.

Yeah I've got the same thing on apps so whenever they find to get an app on their sort of device it comes through to me which is great.

I'm in a powerful position to go. You start to lose power the older they get so anything you can hold on to. And they're probably at the age now where

they can probably decide on those ones that are appropriate but I'm like nah. Just why? I don't know. Just because I can't. But not now

because the next five years you're not going to be listening to me yeah exactly so that's the world of TikTok how's our TikTok account going? I try and put something up there every couple of days not a lot of people but sometimes people are like see you on TikTok mate

kids and they're talking about stuff that was from years ago, and it lives a whole second life on TikTok, the pranks and things that we used to do, Ben. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, no, it's going well. Some of our videos get seen, yeah, by lots of people.

I was talking to someone the other day about TikTok, and she was a social media expert, and she was saying it was really fascinating. She was saying that TikTok is kind of like a stream. She described it like you're standing next to a river and sometimes you get caught in the river and it goes. You put something in the river

and it goes and other times it doesn't go. She's like, well, if I put a video out and I thought it was really good and it doesn't go, I just repost it. And what's the chances are no one's seen it? Because no one's following you directly. Really? Yeah. It's just going into one's following you directly, really. Yeah. You know, it's just going into,

it's getting pushed into all sorts of places. You're just chucking it at a wall and seeing if it sticks. Yeah, so she's like, just post a video three or four times

on different things. You could change something if you want or just post the same one. Whereas, you know, because you're not, you're not going to annoy

your followers really because not as many people follow as much as the videos. As far as like Instagram and Facebook, you're kind of going oh it feels like you're just taking up a lot of unnecessary space on tiktok how many of you got seven different versions of this video yeah but it's an interesting way of looking at

it yeah it's totally different from other um other social media apps looking at our account there you're robbie mungaseva next actor we put robbie mungaseva famous actor you'll know him from wentworth and uh shorty street put him as aaseva, a famous actor. You'll know him from Wentworth and Shorty Street. Put him as a checkout operator in a countdown. 3.8 million. Yeah. 3.8 mil. Yeah, but frankly, we did it on guys, 4.6 mil.

4.6. And it's amazing because those have been on YouTube and other things for a lot longer and haven't got as many views. How do you monetize this stuff? Well, I suppose you probably could. I don't know. I don't know with TikTok you can on YouTube

probably when we're setting up the account there's probably a button you need to click do you want a dollar for every view no just get it out there

it's like a river get it out there just keep it flowing keep it flowing oh hey well there you go there's TikTok and hey maybe we can learn some cool

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